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Co-creating knowledge for renewable energy communities: Application to the Italian context

  Introduction   In recent years, the attention paid by the social sciences to methods and tools for co-creating knowledge in the field of energy has grown considerably (Ryszawska et al., 2021). In fact, analyses and practices of democratising science (Barnes, 2021), citizen science (Lennon et al., 2019), but also a whole range of public engagement tools (Feldpausch-Parker et al., 2021), have been developed, aimed at involving a variety of actors (technicians, stakeholders, intermediaries, companies, political and institutional actors, citizens and consumers, etc.). The objectives of these actions ...